SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) -- A controversial plan to raise the cost of registering your car in California could soon be in the works in Sacramento. Even with the Democrats' new supermajority, there are doubts lawmakers will be able to push through another tax.

In what could be the Democrats' first test in the new supermajority powers in the Legislature, a group called Transportation California has asked St. Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, to introduce legislation to triple the vehicle license fee you pay to register your cars.

Indeed. They are colonizing Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico, and of course Oregon asnd Washington. Here in Texas, it is Travis County where Austin is. They go where they find lower taxes, and then vote to jack them up.

Next, triple the income tax on those awful, evil millionaires who live in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. And triple the sate gasoline tax. And add a triple tax on movie and concert tickets. Man, there is so much money to rake in from those evil rich Californians. Punish them Sacramento!

And don't forget all of those rrrrrrich tech companies in Silicon Valley.

We lived in CA for only a year, and that was enough! Auto plates registration was based on age of car and it was $700 for my newer car. A classic practice on how to discourage buying new cars. Democrats are absolutely nuts.

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posted on 11/15/2012 9:55:47 PM PST
by entropy12
(3 new SCOTUS appointments by Obama will ensure killing of unborn for next 30 years)

In CA, according to their website, a new car costing x dollars would be .0065x+81. Example: A certain car costs $25,000 new. At 0.0065(25000)+81 the registration would be 243.50. The 81 dollars goes to fees for registration, highway patrol and inspection exemption (no inspection for 1st 6 years but they charge 12 dollars for it anyway). I think my registration was about $55 in Ohio on a 15 year old clunker.

They want to discourage cars, period. They want everyone on trains, buses or bikes -- or best of all, on foot.

That's part of the message. California has been wasting many thousands of dollars in the last couple years converting auto lanes to bicycle paths. They take two lanes in each direction and downsize that to one lane for autos. The bicycle paths are seldom in use.

I've got several cars, but will downsize. Lots of people doing this will decrease the amount of registration fees collected. Unintended consequences. Hike taxes, get less money collected.

Idiot do gooder dem voters. You hurt the exact working poor you always talk about helping. The stupid do gooder save the earth regulations make their gasoline costs higher, so they can’t even buy other necessities with gas prices so high. And now you vote in the super majority who can do things like triple the car tax, making the working poor stick with dangerous old cars that are affordable tax wise, if they can even afford cars.

Liberal = pain for the honest working folk and goodies for the lazy. Unintended consequences.

Stop categorizing all Californians as losers. “They” include very decent conservatives who see nothing else but to leave the state. California conservatives are strong and deep — we have to be, living here. There are a lot of us, even though we are outnumbered. Never forget. If it weren’t for Californians you wouldn’t have a FR.

People don’t realize that every dollar sucked out of people’s wallet is money that is taken out of money circulation where is can grow new wealth. New wealth may come from the money market which brings new capital to businesses. Someone like Facebook entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg who is “focused on building as high quality and good things as you are” takes that capitol and hires more than 2000 people. Since, Zukkerberg’s Facebook headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California, maybe it is time he move his headquarters somewhere else.

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posted on 11/15/2012 11:29:27 PM PST
by jonrick46
(The opium of other people's money.)

Triple property taxes. Triple license fees. Triple registration fees. Raise income taxes by 25%. Raise sales taxes by 10 percent. Charge fees on gaining entry to the DMV office. Place a fee on every soft drink. Place more fees on liquor. Take a 32% cut in child support. Take a 40% cut in alimony.

Hey you Lefties..., you wanted a Socialist state, enjoy.

Just go for it boys. The more the better.

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posted on 11/16/2012 1:54:06 AM PST
by DoughtyOne
(Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and 48 million Americans still didn't have power.)

recently renewed my tags, for my 2010 KIA FortE THAT i purchased out the door for 13.500 new in 2010 this year my registration was $69, license fee $83, $8 dollar county district fees, smog abatement fee? was $20.00 ,grand total $180.00,to get this years tags, last year it was $230.00 these were fees for california...

That’s who’s voting for these scumbag dems who’ve ruined the state: illegal aliens and blacks. Especially the illegals - they want “free” womb to the tomb and their not only isn’t any voter ID check there isn’t even any to sign up to vote.

Pepe speaking not a word of English, barefoot, with a bigass sombrero could sign an X and swear up and down on a stack of tamales he was a citizen, and he could sign up to vote.

Decades ago Californians BEGGED for a fence to keep them the hell out — we were laughed at by other states: “not our problem, deal with it” — now that the illegals have infested every other nook and cranny in all 50 states it’s suddenly “a problem.”

Well, 49 other states you stood by and watched California go from 6th largest economy in the world to being taken over by 3rd world dirtbags — get used to what’s coming down the pike — you don’t fix the leak in the dike don’t be surprised when it breaks and floods and ruins everything.

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posted on 11/16/2012 2:29:40 AM PST
by gemoftheocean
(...geez, this all seems so straight forward and logical to me...)

I would believe it. We don’t have near the problem in Kentucky where I’m at but I see a number of leftwingers I know have been transplanted from 5th column states like California and I know they have brought there voting habits with them. It’s amazing to me how successful some of these people are career wise, which would include business careers, yet they are not smart enough to connect the hardship to their own careers and businesses that their marxist voting habits produce. It is beyond maddening.

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